Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Main Event. Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny got the proceedings going by welcoming the 4,949 delegates and 101 foreign deputations to the handsome Palace of Congresses within the Kremlin's high walls. Then came the main event: for more than six hours, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev held the rostrum, and was interrupted by dutiful applause no fewer than 169 times. (Podgorny earned a round of "prolonged applause," too, when he declared a lunch break...
...religious bigots in this country have denied freedom of religion by bombing churches, and Richard Daley denied right of assembly and invited the 1968 Chicago riots by refusing to give war protesters a meeting place. And just as Vice President Agnew, who, so obviously anxious to please a boss so often burned by newsmen, would like to amend so called "abuses" of freedom of the press...
...said he sang without "enough impulse"). Instead Dewey settled on law and swiftly achieved prominence. A skilled trial lawyer who could wither reluctant witnesses with scornful questions, he was appointed an assistant U.S. Attorney at the age of 29, heading a staff of 52 lawyers. His biggest catch: Rackets Boss Charles ("Lucky") Luciano...
...already too old to be serious contenders for power. No outsider is privy to the deliberations of the Politburo, and members most likely form different alliances on different issues. Even so, Brezhnev's main supporters appear to be Andrei Kirilenko, 64, who acts as his deputy, Ukrainian Party Boss Pyotr Shelest, 62, an ultra-hard-liner, and possibly Gennady Voronov, 60, Premier of the Russian Federation. Arvid Pelshe, 72, the Latvian party leader, and Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, 68, are both ailing and might possibly be replaced at the present Congress. Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny, 68, will probably stay...
...president in charge of a new leasing operation established by the finance company, which was owned by his father-in-law, Chicago Jeweler Burton Greenfield. The leasing business climbed steadily until it operated a fleet of 60 light planes out of its headquarters in Northbrook, Ill. Still, the young boss was dissatisfied. Aiming to make the company into a Hertz of the skies, Johnson set out three years ago to establish the first chain of franchised rent-a-plane stations across the country...